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Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the case when secret society members start dropping like flies.

In London, after the apparent suicide of James Murphy, a member of the mysterious Scarlet Ring organization led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew, the Ring meets in London's Limehouse district to disperse Murphy's property. Eileen Forrester joins the group to replace her father, after having deciphered a secret code published in the newspaper, although she is ignorant of the group's true purpose. When one of the members, Pyke, enters and falls dead from a gunshot wound, Eileen faints, and Pyke's body disappears. The next morning, Lastrade of Scotland Yard calls criminologist Sherlock Holmes in on the case after Dearing, another Ring member, is found dead and Pyke's body is found in the Thames. Holmes, who had had already been contacted by Murphy's widow, who was excluded from the Ring meeting, suspects that Murphy was also murdered. Pyke's Chinese wife identifies her husband's body by the ring he wore. At the next Ring meeting, Merrydew informs the remaining members, Jabez Wilson, William Baker and Eileen, that the group is being disbanded. When Eileen fails to appear after the meeting, her fiancé, John Stanford, and Holmes, rescue her from imprisonment in a gas-filled room. Another Ring member, Baker, later falls to his death from his guest room at the Pyke country estate known as the Grange, and this terrorizes Wilson, who feels his turn is next. Eileen is lured to the Grange by a telegram. When John reports her disappearance, Holmes, his assistant, Dr. Watson, and Lastrade secretly gather at the Grange where an unidentified stranger has arrived. The stranger enters the room in which Eileen is imprisoned, but Holmes and his party rescue Eileen and save Wilson from being killed by Ah Yet, Pyke's mute servant. Holmes reveals the stranger to be Pyke, who faked his own death. Holmes suspected Pyke because he found his footprints around the home of Dearing, after his death. Merrydew and the Pykes are arrested and Holmes explains that the Scarlet Ring was formed to protect the priceless Mandarin jewels stolen from China years earlier, but Merrydew and the Pykes got greedy, and wanted the jewels for themselves. Eileen and John invite Holmes to their wedding.